Class Participation
It alwys better to have the students actively engaged in the learnng process. When I learned calculus back in the day, we were at the blackboard most of the time working problems. It worked great!
I agree with the idea that students learn better by doing. In the lab setting, while discussing the anesthesia machine, I reverse the role and have the students teach me how different components/processes work. It forces them to know the material.
Hi Jamie,
Students love it when the instructor is energetic! The instructor sets the tone for the room. Nothing bothers me more than to see an instructor sitting down teaching/lecturing...unreal!!!
Patricia Scales
I am in total aggreement with visual learning. Lecturing is great but students respond better to instructors engaging them and working the class room persay; moving around the class appose to sitting in one place. Hands on is always a motivationg approach.
Class participation is so important....open disscussion... question/answer sessions.
Hi Traci,
Use a variety of teaching methods, such as role playing, case studies, simulations, hands-on activities, group project, etc.
Patricia Scales
What about lecture, how do you engage the students more rather than lecturing and then asking if they have any questions?
Mark,
Hi Mark,
When the instructor has a high energy level and is very mobile, the students tend to participate more.
Patricia Scales
I agree as well. The act of getting up out of your seat and walking to the front of the class is often times enough to get a student involved in the process and participating.
Hi Kim,
Students really tend to retain information better whenever hands-on learning is involved.
Patricia Scales
Yes I agree... I've always been a hands on learner, therefore I thinnk class participation is GREAT for the students who do learn better hands on.
Hi Diane,
Most of our students are visual learners. When they can actually see what is beig taught, they grasp the material better.
Patricia Scales
I feel the same. Visual learners need to know the why's and what's in many situations in order to accomodate the brain to grasp what they just learned. Many times if you tell students the expected outsomes they can visually understand the concept.
Hi Shirley,
Studies have proven that most learners need to see it in order to get it. Seeing is believing.
Patricia
I also believe the more visual learners learn by seeing. When students have to participate they actually well hopefully think before they speak or do.
Hi William,
I too was in the era when students stayed at the blackboard in a math class. Students learn better by doing.
Patricia
